After an unknown amount of time, everything finally calmed down.
Before Echidna's tomb, the clearing that had become a battlefield had long since turned into a battered crater, without a single intact spot.
Fang Li stood in the center of the crater, reaching into a pile of rubble beneath him and dragging out the opponent who had endured his recent strike.
"Crack... crack...!"
Amid the rolling stones, Garfiel was pulled out by Fang Li.
"Ugh..."
A pained groan escaped Garfiel's mouth.
His body had already reverted from the beastified Golden Tiger form to his original appearance as a boy.
Holding Garfiel like that, Fang Li showed no care or caution at all and directly threw him toward Ryuzu.
Ryuzu was immediately startled and hurried forward, catching the thrown Garfiel.
"Thud...!"
With a dull sound, Garfiel landed in Ryuzu's arms, his head lolling to one side as he became completely motionless.
"Garfiel...!?"
Ryuzu's expression changed at once.
But in the next second, Fang Li's voice reached her.
"Don't worry. He just passed out."
Fang Li leaped out of the ruined crater and landed between Sylvia and Emilia. He glanced at Garfiel and spoke indifferently.
"If I didn't knock him out, he'd just keep pestering me endlessly."
Unable to use the Magic Eye right now, unless Fang Li directly killed Garfiel, Garfiel could recover from any injury with the power of Earth Spirit's Blessing.
However, even though Earth Spirit's Blessing could heal Garfiel's wounds, Fang Li had never actually intended to kill him, so there was no need to cut him down outright.
Fang Li believed that if he had struck Garfiel's heart with all his strength, Garfiel would never have been able to evade an attack at Twelve Times the Speed of Sound and would have died on the spot.
Therefore,